Sage Partners

Name

Sage Partners

Legal name

Sage Partners LLC

Website

https://sagepartners.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

2001

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Management Consulting Services

NAICS

Management Consulting Services (54161), Other Management Consulting Services (541618)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Strategy & Corporate Development Consulting (BPAHACAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships Advisory (JVs, Alliances, Carve-outs) (BPAHAOAG)

Keywords

• Growth strategy consulting
• Corporate governance advisory
• Venture growth advisory
• University IP commercialization
• Board advisory services

Headquarters

HQ city

Harwich Port

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices10 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Strategic Advisory Services: Advisory engagements for executives and board members focused on strategy development, governance, and growth acceleration. Custom consulting engagements based on client needs and scope of work.
2. Venture Growth Services: Advisory services for startup entrepreneurs including strategic guidance, operational support, and growth acceleration for early-stage companies.
3. University IP Services: Consulting for academic institutions and innovation leaders to maximize the value of research and intellectual property commercialization.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Sage Partners is a boutique strategy and governance consulting firm that delivers partner-led advisory services to founders, executive teams, boards of directors, and university innovation leaders. The firm operates through three practice areas: Strategic Advisory Services for executives and board members, Venture Growth for startup entrepreneurs, and University IP for academic institutions seeking to commercialize research. All engagements are conducted directly by partners with 30+ years of executive, board, and entrepreneurial experience.

Product overview

Sage Partners is a consulting firm organized around three practice areas: Strategic Advisory Services for executives and board members, Venture Growth for startup entrepreneurs, and University IP for academic innovation leaders. The firm supplements its advisory work with a thought leadership platform (Focus on Growth Podcast), growth-focused event programs (reIgnite Growth), and the Sage Venture Accelerator initiative. The offerings are advisory and consulting services rather than a unified software product or platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Strategic Advisory Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Braxton Associates grew at 25% annually before $500M+ acquisition by Deloitte
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Stanford Hasso Plattner Design Institute (d.school)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Sage Partners collaborated with Stanford's d.school on a Focus on Growth podcast episode discussing design thinking and systems design thinking for navigating uncertainty. Scott Doorley and Carissa Carter co-authored 'Assembling Tomorrow' with the design institute.
• The Economic Board (Netherlands)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017The Economic Board partnered with Sage Partners to bring the international Sage Venture Accelerator to the Netherlands region. The collaboration initiated in 2017 with Richard Dobbelmann from The Economic Board working alongside Hugo van der Zee from Sage Partners and John Schalken from Science Meets Business. The program has visited the Nijmegen region six times to support regional entrepreneurs.
• Science Meets BusinesscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017Science Meets Business (SMB), led by John Schalken, co-initiated the Sage Venture Accelerator program in the Netherlands with Sage Partners and The Economic Board in 2017. The partnership connects academic research with business opportunities in the region.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• McKinsey & Company: McKinsey is the largest global management consulting firm with a deep strategy and corporate development practice serving executives and boards. It is the broad incumbent against which Sage's boutique senior-advisor positioning competes on relationship depth and senior attention.
• Deloitte Consulting: Deloitte is the largest professional services firm with a strategy consulting practice and absorbed Braxton Associates (co-founded by Sage founder Doorley) into its strategy group. Multiple Sage partners are former Deloitte senior partners, and Deloitte represents both the heritage and the principal scaled competitor to Sage's strategy advisory work.
• Boston Consulting Group: BCG is a top-tier global strategy consulting firm with strengths in growth strategy, corporate development, and board advisory. It competes with Sage for executive and board mandates but operates at vastly larger scale with a junior pyramid model.
• Bain & Company: Bain is a global strategy consulting firm with strong practices in private equity advisory, growth strategy, and corporate transformation. It targets similar C-suite and board buyers as Sage and represents the upper-tier competition for growth-strategy mandates.

Emerging players

• Egon Zehnder: Egon Zehnder is a global executive search and leadership advisory firm serving boards and CEOs. While primarily a search firm, its board advisory and leadership consulting overlap with Sage's governance and executive advisory work for similar buyer personas.

Direct peers

• LEK Consulting: LEK is a global strategy consulting firm focused on growth strategy, M&A, and sector-specific advisory for executives. It is a comparable mid-sized strategy advisory competing for similar C-suite mandates as Sage.
• Arthur D. Little: Arthur D. Little is a global strategy and innovation consulting firm with a similar boutique-senior positioning and a heritage of advising executives on growth strategy. Sage partner Mimi Macksoud was previously CMO at ADL, making it a particularly close cultural and methodological peer.
• ghSMART & Company: ghSMART is a boutique leadership advisory firm advising founders, executives, and boards on talent, CEO selection, and scaling challenges. It overlaps Sage's entrepreneur and executive advisory practice with a similar senior-advisor-led engagement model.
• Charles River Associates: CRA is a consulting firm specializing in strategy, economics, and litigation support with a senior-led engagement model. It overlaps Sage's strategy advisory practice particularly in corporate growth and governance matters.
• Marakon Associates: Marakon is a boutique strategy consulting firm specializing in value creation, growth strategy, and corporate finance advisory for executives and boards. Its senior-led, no-junior-pyramid positioning closely parallels Sage's model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@SagePartnersPodcast
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/sage-partners

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles18 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments3 records

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